Ozu Tag

5 Must-See Screen Performances | The Great Acting Blog

07.12.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1278"] *Per Oscarsson in Sult [Hunger].[/caption] I chose this five because I believe that watching them invites us to question our self-imposed limitations of what acting can be, and inspire us to re-draw those limitations. Each performance shows that, through acting, we can...

Chishu Ryu In Late Spring – The Great Acting Blog

09.03.2011 , The Great Acting Blog , 37 Comments

This week, I watched Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 masterpiece, Late Spring, and was immediately captivated by the performance of Ozu regular, Chishu Ryu, who plays a widower called Professor Somiya, and spends most of the film trying to get his daughter No...